Mark Fraser was on the roster of four different teams last season before working his way on to the Maple Leafs this season. (CRAIG ROBERTSON/TORONTO SUN)

When Hugh Fraser was the fastest kid in Canada, growing up in Kingston in the 1960s, all he really wanted was a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey. The team had won the Stanley Cup when he was 14, nine, and eight and seven.

The team was everything but the jersey never came: There was no money for it.

Instead of playing for the Maple Leafs — he wasn’t a hockey player of any kind — Fraser ran for Ontario, ran for Canada. He once held the provincial records for what was then the 100 yards and 220-yard dashes. He ran the 200 metres in the Olympics in Montreal in 1976 and represented this country at the Commonwealth Games and Pan-American Games.